He's an absolute rock and always one of our best players. The guy who makes us tick. But this formation, or at least the one yesterday, just completely snookers him. He has Lewis stood pretty much in his shadow at times, not really serving much purpose and eliminating Rodri's ability to switch play evenly from left to right. Then he's tucking in to collect the ball from Ederson but rather than having a centre back either side to play to, or a full back either side and then someone like Bernardo dropping in, he's got his left back tucked in which rules out Ake and playing it that side and makes it easy for Spurs to stifle the obvious passing options.
It's worrying when you're watching a Pep side and feeling like hoofing the ball up the pitch is the better option!
